Infamous

In a matter of months, the diabetes drug Ozempic has become a household name, and the Danish pharmaceutical company that produces it has achieved a market cap that exceeds the size of its country’s ec...

21 Sep 202337min

This episode will be released for free starting September 14th. With so few leaders to turn to in this time of crisis, the public is willing to overlook Andrew Cuomo’s storied history of corruption sc...

14 Sep 202338min

This episode will be released for free starting September 7th. In the confusing, scary early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, one question captured the imagination of millions: Does New York’s Governor ...

7 Sep 202335min

Today, there are two stories on Infamous. First, Vanessa talks to Decoder Ring's Willa Paskin about the event of the summer — the Barbie movie — and learns about Barbie's bizarre origin story, how she...

3 Aug 202352min

After notorious Wall Street scammer Bernie Madoff was sentenced to prison, he refused to speak with the media. But journalist Steve Fishman took that as a challenge. So he sent letters to every single...

27 Jul 202330min

Philosophy queen Virginia Heffernan looks back on her experience wearing Google Glass and on the product’s ultimate failure, then considers what the fiasco can tell us about the current state of techn...

15 Jun 202329min

Newly aware of his increased risk for Parkinson’s Disease, Sergey is in a hurry to make a mark on the world with a new, cutting-edge technology: Google Glass. Except, what is Google Glass for? And why...

8 Jun 202328min

With the meteoric rise of Google in the early aughts, Anne Wojcicki and Sergey Brin became one of the wealthiest power couples in Silicon Valley. But when Anne strikes out to start her very own biotec...

1 Jun 202338min